117 - Stop Efforting Your Way to Success with Tracy Oswald

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In one of my all-time favorite interviews, today’s guest shares an absolutely powerful message. By sharing her personal journey from feeling less than enough to enjoying every moment, Tracy Oswald drives home the importance of vulnerability and being fully present. This episode is one you’ll want to listen to again and again to boost your confidence in speaking your mind, embracing your emotions, and showing up in your life and business as yourself.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tracy Oswald is the coach for Gen X corporate women who want to call the magic back into their lives by being more and doing less. Tracy is a national keynote speaker, and host of the podcast, Defending Lady Macbeth, the show for every woman who was ever told; you are too much, too loud, or too ambitious. Tracy is also the VP of Sales Learning & Development for LOCALiQ, part of the USA TODAY network. In other roles there, she designed and taught client-facing marketing labs across the country as well as hosted The Growth Lab podcast for USA TODAY. Tracy has an active following on LinkedIn of 7,500+ and encourages you to connect with her there.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show Notes:</span></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[1:56] - Welcome to the show, Tracy!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[2:52] - Elyse and Tracy discuss an impactful quote: “Everything is not as it seems and fortune favors the bold,” from Sleep No More.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:31] - What Tracy has learned is what we see in life is up to us to dig deeper.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[7:02] - Tracy shares her background in sales and her understanding of human nature.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:18] - Describing her career, Tracy was very successful but never really felt like she was doing things right.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[9:34] - In her career, Tracy shares that she did not have meanin